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An Phoblacht Republican News: "Loughgall Martyrs"
Published #OnThisDay, Thursday 14th May 1987.
An Phoblacht Republican News, Iml. 9, Uimh. 19 (1987) — Sinn Féin
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@CLR@mastodon.ieRebel Notes: Popular Music and Conflict in Ireland, Dublin launch Wednesday 21st May 2025, Dalymount
Rebel Notes: Popular Music and Conflict in Ireland, Dublin launch Wednesday 21st May 2025, Dalymount
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New document: "Socialist from Below". A leaflet from the Workers' Solidarity Movement in 1997.
Socialism from Below (1997) — Workers' Solidarity Movement
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The second edition of The Irish People, newspaper of Official Sinn Féin and later The Workers' Party, published #OnThisDay 11th May 1973.
The Irish People, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1973) — Sinn Féin [Official]
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New document:
We Are Workers Not Slaves: The Story of the GAMA Struggle
By Mick Barry, Socialist Party, 2006.
We Are Workers Not Slaves: The Story of the GAMA Struggle (2006) — Socialist Party
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The Hillsborough Agreement: The text of the Bobby Sands Commemorative lecture given by Danny Morrison in Twinbrook, Belfast #OnThisDay Sunday 4th May 1986.
The Hillsborough Agreement (1986) — Sinn Féin
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#OnThisDay, 3rd May 1979, elections to Westminster were held. Here's the SDLP manifesto from that election:
SDLP Election Manifesto, Westminster Election, 1979 (1979) — Social Democratic and Labour Party
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Irish Left Archive shared 4 months ago@CLR@mastodon.ieJames Connolly Festival 2025
This year’s festival runs from Tuesday, May 6th to the 11th with almost all events taking place at Connolly House and The New Theatre. It will include a week-long James Connolly Art Exhibition. Seven artists have been invited to prepare prints and paintings that will be available to view and purchase throughout the week. Similarly, ‘Grand Canal Demolition Derby’ is a Playstation style video game set in Dublin where players learn of the…
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/james-connolly-festival-2025/
James Connolly Festival 2025
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Published #OnThisDay 2nd May 1987:
Marxist Leninist Weekly, from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
Marxist-Leninist Weekly, Vol 17, No. 5 (1987) — Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)
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Irish Left Archive shared 4 months ago@CLR@mastodon.ieMay Day Greetings 2025
Happy May Day to everyone! News of events - don't forget this if you're in Dublin - very welcome.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/may-day-greetings-2025/
May Day Greetings 2025
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The 1st of May was first marked as International Workers’ Day in 1890, when the Second International called for demonstrations.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/05/01/#event-6415
On This Day, 1st May
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New episode of the Irish Left Archive Podcast:
We talk to Maurice Casey (@mauricejcasey@mastodon.ie) about his book, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals, which tells the story of May O’Callaghan and her social circle in the Comintern’s Moscow accommodation for international communists.
Irish Left Archive shared 4 months ago
@ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ieHotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals, with Maurice Casey
🎙️New episode!
We talk to Maurice Casey about his book,
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals.
Irish Left Archive shared 4 months ago@CLR@mastodon.ieMay Day march and rally, Dublin, Thursday 1st May 2025
The annual May Day march and rally will take place on May Day, Thursday 1st May 2025, at 7 pm (assembling at 6.30 pm), marching from the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, to Beresford Place (Liberty Hall) for the rally and speeches. The speakers will be Paul Gavan, newly appointed Irish Congress of Trade Unions Advocacy and Campaigns Officer, Aisling Hedderman, Community Action Tenants Union (CATU), Roh…
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/may-day-march-and-rally-dublin-thursday-1st-may-2025/
May Day march and rally, Dublin, Thursday 1st May 2025
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New document:
Saoirse Nua, No. 2, December 2010 / January 2011.
Produced by Republican Sinn Féin Limerick, a group which emerged from an RSF split in 2010.
Saoirse Nua, No. 2 (2010) — Republican Sinn Féin [Limerick]
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New document:
Dawn, No. 104.
Dawn – An Irish Magazine on Nonviolent Action, Civil Liberties and Movements for Change – was produced in the 1980s.
Dawn
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Since it's Easter weekend, here's a collection of documents marking previous anniversaries of the 1916 #EasterRising.
Document Collection: 1916 Easter Rising: Anniversaries and Commemorations
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Published #OnThisDay 20th April 1985:
"Celebrate May Day! Come to the rally at Dublin's GPO" "Farewell to Comrade Enver!"
Voice of Revolution (Marxist-Leninist Weekly), from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
The paper also marks the funeral of Albanian leader, Enver Hoxha. The #CPIML took a Hoxhaist position after the Sino-Albanian split.
There's a wide range of political material on our site, but this remains among the most unsettling to pass when scrolling through them… 
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6130/
From a housing occupation in Dublin (from @electionlit@mastodon.online).
Leo Varadkar Face Mask (2018)
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#OnThisDay, 19th April 2003, demonstration was held in Newbridge, Kildare, to oppose the invasion of Iraq and the US military’s use of Shannon Airport. These documents were distributed at the demo and to promote it:
Political Material from: Anti-War Demonstration, 19th April 2003
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